It Adds Up (and Up, and Up)
This article in the New York Times tech section details how much greater a chunk of the family budget gets spent on connectivity than 20 years ago: One family pays "$225 a month for services that enable them to watch television, make phone calls and communicate over the Internet. That is more than a threefold increase [since 1974], in today's dollars, for communications and home entertainment." Don't we know it! And we're not even early adopters ...